Word: extinctionism
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$25 million Amount conservationists say is needed for programs to save the apes from extinction
400,000 Number of great apes in Africa and Asia, down from millions in the 19th century; each of the species is at "high risk" of extinction within the next 50 years
Remember the airline bailouts following 9/11? Less than a month after the 2001 attacks, Congress rushed through a $15 billion bounty of subsidies and loan guarantees for U.S. carriers--which suffered catastrophic human and business losses that day and the next two. Washington first forked over money for anything that...
Xinmin is a village on the verge of extinction. Nearly every resident of this swampy, 1,000-strong hamlet in the central Chinese province of Hunan is infected by the parasitic worm Schistosoma japonicum. It spreads through the bloodstream, lays eggs in the liver and bladder, wriggles into the brain...
Two years after its celebrated launch, Celeris, the University-run convenience store located in the Quad, may be on the verge of extinction.